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I didn‘t love it nearly as much as One Dark Window or The Knight and the Moth. I‘m actually a bit disappointed. The writing is still captivating, the characters just as interesting, but I didn‘t feel the same pull. Maybe it‘s because we go from having just Elspeth‘s POV in book one, to having 3 POVs. I understand the need for the change, but I wanted more of Ravyn and Elspeth as a couple. I‘m not sold on the other couple. Still a pick, though.

This book intertwines the POVs of the five Haddesley siblings, latest in a family that has an ancient compact with a bog, in which they give the bog the body of their patriarch and it gives them a wife for the new patriarch. I absolutely loved it. Magrat isn‘t a huge fan of being used as a book rest, but it didn‘t scare her off my lap.

Started last night (I have very little respect for sleep and reading sounded better) and finished this morning.

This one isn't so much scary to me as creepily unsettling. I just love how the language in this book keeps me feeling uneasy.

This was a good book and I loved the twists at the end. Olivia is a writer having trouble with her next book when she gets an offer to help find the true story behind Rebecca and if Daphne DuMaurier really wrote it.
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“Her siblings were not… just the same as they had been ten years ago. They were worse. They had spent the decade of her absence growing around one another like roots in the same crowded patch of earth, contorting themselves so everyone could fit.”

…and with that Rachel Gillig becomes an auto buy author for me. I loved this. The writing is immersive, the characters are compelling, and the magic system is unique and clever. It‘s a good thing book two is already out and that I own it. Do I read the things I‘m supposed to next or do I start book two? 🤔

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This was excellent! Not ultimately super scary, but such a great exploration of toxic family dynamics!

Creepy with plenty of gore. I‘m not the biggest fan of gore but I liked the creepy.